Clinical Nurse Specialist - Hepatobillary CNS
Accepting applications until: 03-Jul-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 03-Jul-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- St Thomas Hospital
- Town
- london
- Postcode
- se1 7eh
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £51,488 - £57,802 pa inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Gastrointestinal Medicine and Surgery
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
Hepatobiliary (HPB) CNS service Band 6/7 Depending on Experience
An exciting secondment opportunity has arisen within the GSTT Hepatobiliary (HPB) CNS service.
You will work alongside a well-established team to deliver care for patients with liver, pancreatic, biliary and gallbladder disorders, both malignant and benign conditions.
Excellent communication and documentation is essential as the role will include delivering sensitive diagnosis as well as seeing patients in a clinical setting and during procedures.
The successful candidate will be expected to co-ordinating care for patients with suspected HPB cancers and be a point of contact and source of information. This will be through co-ordinating surveillance and care for patients on long term HPB related follow up
The role involves supporting Gastro and Upper GI surgical clinics, liaising with other Trusts within the sector regarding referrals and be expected to build good working relationships within the team and beyond.
Education will be provided as required for all training/knowledge gaps
Closing date: 3rd July 2024
Interview date: 8th July 2024
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Develop and maintain effective communication with the wider MDT, patients and relatives/carers, in relation to delivering results and outcomes.
The role would require a degree of autonomy, clinical judgement and decision-making skills.
The post holder will be responsible for clinical triage of 2ww referrals, use of STT model where appropriate and assess patients via telephone or F2F clinics. Therefore, the applicant needs to have expert knowledge of upper GI anatomy, physiology and psychological functioning for this group of patients in order to produce an effective plan of care.
The post holder will also need to have knowledge and experience of suspected upper GI cancer and benign endoscopy and diagnostic pathways, linking in with the MDM meetings and clinical teams. An understanding of the Faster Diagnostic Standard and Referral to Treatment specifications is also required. They will work very closely with the cancer pathway tracking teams and help maintain efficient timelines on the patient tracking lists (PTLs) for this group of patients. They should ideally be working at advanced practice level with advanced clinical assessment and non-medical prescribing qualification or willingness to do so.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
The Gastrointestinal medicine and Surgery Directorate (GMS), provide a range of services across inpatient, outpatient settings and some community settings. The services cover upper and lower GI surgery, hepatology, gastroenterology and emergency surgery.
Working within GMS you’ll be surrounded by an exceptional team of supportive colleagues. Their skill, passion and pride in what they do will inspire you and their encouragement will give you confidence. Their dedication and sense of teamwork will help push you to new heights. Caring for patients is our top priority and our staff often go the extra mile. Their commitment underpins our success – they reflect the diversity of the communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities
- You should be an excellent communicator with patients and colleagues regarding disease treatment and management.
- Interested applicants should have significant knowledge and advanced communication skills to be able to provide this information and support to patients.
- Equality, diversity and inclusion underpins our interactions with our patients and our colleagues and are also core values for our ward team and wider MDT.
- Please see attached job description for full details
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working autonomously at an advanced level in speciality areas
- Evidence of management and leadership experience
- Evidence of student supervision and clinical education
Skills
Essential criteria
- Advanced clinical, managerial and leadership skills in specialty.
- Proven listening / counselling skills with the ability to manage complex situation and appropriately deliver sensitive and difficult outcomes
- Evidence of teaching skills in particular teaching patients in how to manage their conditions and raise their awareness of their condition.
- Ability to clinically lead & influence staff
- Able to use skills of history taking and physical assessment to direct patient care
Desirable criteria
- Undertaken clinical & nursing research
- Ability to interpret and analyse complex data and findings
Qualifications/Professional/ Statutory Registration
Essential criteria
- RN1 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality.
- BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience
- Post registration qualification in appropriate area of speciality or equivalent post qualification experience.
- Leadership course
- Mentorship course
Desirable criteria
- To have or working towards a masters degree
- Some experience on hepatobiliary and liver disease
- Have or working towards a non medical physical assessment course
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Martine Osborne
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0207188718
- Additional information
Jackie Bates [email protected]
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